104982 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 247 / Thursday, December 26, 2024 / Notices 

1See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Indonesia: 

Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at LessThan-Fair Value, 89 FR 85498 (October 28, 2024) 

(Shrimp from Indonesia Final Results). 

2See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador: 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 85506 (October 28, 2024); see 

also Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India: Final 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 89 

FR 85502 (October 28, 2024); and Frozen 

Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of 

Vietnam: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 85500 (October 28, 2024). 

3See ITC’s Letter, ‘‘Notification of ITC Final 

Determination,’’ dated December 12, 2024 (ITC 

Notification Letter). 

4See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, 

India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, 89 FR 102163 

(December 17, 2024). 

5See ITC Notification Letter. 

6See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Indonesia: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 89 FR 46861 (May 30, 2024) (LTFV 

Preliminary Determination). 

7Shrimp from Indonesia Final Results, 89 FR at 

85499. 

proceeding. Timely notification of the 

return or destruction of APO materials 

or conversion to judicial protective 

order is hereby requested. Failure to 

comply with the regulations and the 

terms of an APO is a sanctionable 

violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

these final results and this notice in 

accordance with sections 751(c), 752(b), 

and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.218. 

Dated: December 18, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. History of the Order 

V. Legal Framework 

VI. Discussion of the Issues 

1. Likelihood of Continuation or 

Recurrence of a Countervailable Subsidy 

2. Net Countervailable Subsidy Rates 

Likely To Prevail 

3. Nature of the Subsidies 

VII. Final Results of Sunset Review 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–560–842, C–331–806, C–533–921, C–552– 

838] 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From 

Indonesia: Antidumping Duty Order; 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From 

Ecuador, India, and the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Countervailing 

Duty Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the U.S. Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing an antidumping 

duty (AD) order on frozen warmwater 

shrimp (shrimp) from Indonesia and 

countervailing duty (CVD) orders on 

shrimp from Ecuador, India, and the 

Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

(Vietnam). 

DATES: Applicable December 26, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Benjamin Nathan (CVD India) at (202) 

482–3834; Reginald Anadio or Zachary 

Shaykin (CVD Ecuador) at (202) 482– 

3166 or (202) 482–5377, respectively; 

Rachel Jennings or Miranda Bourdeau 

(AD Indonesia) at (202) 482–1110 or 

(202) 482–2021, respectively; and Adam 

Simons (CVD Vietnam) at (202) 482– 

6172; AD/CVD Operations, Offices II, 

IV, V, and IX, respectively, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 705(d), 

735(d), and 777(i) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), on October 

28, 2024, Commerce published its 

affirmative final determination of sales 

at less than fair value (LTFV) of shrimp 

from Indonesia,1 and its affirmative 

final determinations that 

countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

shrimp from Ecuador, India, and 

Vietnam.2

On December 12, 2024, pursuant to 

sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Act, 

the ITC notified Commerce of its final 

affirmative determinations that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of dumped 

imports of shrimp from Indonesia, and 

subsidized imports of shrimp from 

Ecuador, India, and Vietnam, within the 

meaning of sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.3 On December 

17, 2024, the ITC published its final 

determinations in the Federal Register.4

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise covered by these 

orders is frozen warmwater shrimp from 

Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of the orders, see the appendix to this 

notice. 

AD Order 

On December 12, 2024, in accordance 

with section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

determinations that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured 

within the meaning of section 

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of 

imports of shrimp from Indonesia that 

are sold in the United States at LTFV.5

Therefore, in accordance with sections 

735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce 

is issuing this AD order. Because the 

ITC determined that imports of shrimp 

from Indonesia are materially injuring a 

U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of 

such merchandise from Indonesia, 

entered or withdrawn from warehouse 

for consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of antidumping duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will 

direct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, antidumping 

duty deposits equal to the amount by 

which the normal value of the 

merchandise exceeds the export price 

(or constructed export price) of the 

merchandise on all relevant entries of 

shrimp from Indonesia. Antidumping 

duties will be assessed on unliquidated 

entries of shrimp entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after May 30, 2024, the date of 

publication of the LTFV Preliminary 

Determination,6 but will not include 

entries occurring after the expiration of 

the provisional measures period and 

before publication of the ITC’s final 

injury determination, as further 

described below. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation and Cash Deposits—AD 

Except as noted in the ‘‘Provisional 

Measures—AD’’ section of this notice, 

Commerce intends to instruct CBP to 

continue to suspend liquidation on all 

relevant entries of shrimp from 

Indonesia, in accordance with section 

736 of the Act. Because the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin 

calculated for PT Bahari Makmur Sejati 

(BMS) in the Final Determination was 

zero,7 entries of subject merchandise 

produced and exported by BMS will not 

be subject to this order. Accordingly, 

Commerce will direct CBP not to 

suspend liquidation of, or to require 


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8See LTFV Preliminary Determination. 

9See ITC Notification Letter. 

10See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador: 

Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With the Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 22379 (April 1, 2024); see 

also Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India: 

Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 22386 (April 1, 2024); and 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment 

of Final Determination With Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination, 89 FR 22374 (April 1, 2024) 

(collectively, CVD Preliminary Determinations). We 

note that the preliminary determination for Ecuador 

was subsequently amended. See Frozen Warmwater 

Shrimp from Ecuador: Amended Preliminary 

Determination of Countervailing Duty Investigation, 

89 FR 31722 (April 25, 2024). 

cash deposits of estimated antidumping 

duties on, entries of subject 

merchandise produced and exported by 

BMS. Therefore, in accordance with 

section 735(a)(4) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.204(e)(1), entries of subject 

merchandise from this producer/ 

exporter combination will be excluded 

from the order. However, entries of 

subject merchandise from BMS in any 

other producer/exporter combination, or 

by third parties that sourced subject 

merchandise from the excluded 

producer/exporter combination, will be 

subject to suspension of liquidation and 

cash deposits of estimated antidumping 

duties at the all-others rate noted below. 

These instructions suspending 

liquidations will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Commerce also intends to instruct 

CBP to require cash deposits equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins indicated in the tables 

below. Accordingly, effective on the 

date of publication in the Federal 

Register of the notice of the ITC’s final 

affirmative injury determination, CBP 

must require, at the same time as 

importers would normally deposit 

estimated customs duties on subject 

merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the 

rates listed in the table below. 

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margins 

The estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

PT Bahari Makmur Sejati ........... 0.00 

PT First Marine Seafoods; PT 

Khom Foods ............................ 3.90 

All Others .................................... 3.90 

Provisional Measures—AD 

Section 733(d) of the Act states that 

suspension of liquidation pursuant to an 

affirmative preliminary determination 

may not remain in effect for more than 

four months, except where exporters 

representing a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise 

request that Commerce extend the fourmonth period to no more than six 

months. At the request of exporters that 

accounted for a significant proportion of 

exports of shrimp from Indonesia, 

Commerce extended the four-month 

period to no more than six months.8 In 

the underlying investigation, Commerce 

published the LTFV Preliminary 

Determination on May 30, 2024. 

Therefore, the six-month period 

beginning on the date of the publication 

of the LTFV Preliminary Determination 

ended on November 25, 2024. Pursuant 

to section 737(b) of the Act, the 

collection of cash deposits at the rates 

listed above will begin on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination. Therefore, in accordance 

with section 736(a)(1) of the Act and our 

practice, Commerce will instruct CBP to 

terminate the suspension of liquidation 

and to liquidate, without regard to 

antidumping duties, unliquidated 

entries of shrimp from Indonesia 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after November 

26, 2024, the first day provisional 

measures were no longer in effect, until 

and through the day preceding the date 

of publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of liquidation and the 

collection of cash deposits will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final determination in the Federal 

Register. 

CVD Orders 

As stated above, based on the abovereferenced affirmative final 

determination by the ITC that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured within the meaning 

of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by 

reason of subsidized imports of shrimp 

from Ecuador, India, and Vietnam,9 in 

accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the 

Act, Commerce is issuing these CVD 

orders. Moreover, because the ITC 

determined that imports of shrimp from 

Ecuador, India, and Vietnam are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of subject 

merchandise from Ecuador, India, and 

Vietnam entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption, are subject 

to the assessment of countervailing 

duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

706(a) of the Act, Commerce intends to 

direct CBP to assess, upon further 

instructions by Commerce, 

countervailing duties on all relevant 

entries of shrimp from Ecuador, India, 

and Vietnam, which are entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after April 1, 2024, 

the date of publication of the CVD 

Preliminary Determinations,10 but will 

not include entries occurring after the 

expiration of the provisional measures 

period and before the publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination under 

section 705(b) of the Act, as further 

described in the ‘‘Provisional 

Measures—CVD’’ section of this notice. 

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash 

Deposits—CVD 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP 

to reinstitute the suspension of 

liquidation of shrimp from Ecuador, 

India, and Vietnam, effective on the date 

of publication of the ITC’s final 

affirmative injury determination in the 

Federal Register, and to assess, upon 

further instruction by Commerce, 

pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, 

countervailing duties on each entry of 

subject merchandise in an amount based 

on the net countervailable subsidy rates 

below. On or after the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register, 

CBP must require, at the same time as 

importers would normally deposit 

estimated customs duties on this 

merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the 

rates listed in the table below. These 

instructions suspending liquidation will 

remain in effect until further notice. The 

all-others rate applies to all producers or 

exporters not specifically listed below, 

as appropriate. 

Estimated Countervailing Duty Subsidy 

Rates 

The estimated countervailing duty 

subsidy rates are as follows: 


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11Commerce has found the following companies 

to be cross-owned with Industrial Pesquera Santa 

Priscila S.A: Manesil S.A., Produmar S.A., Egidiosa 

S.A., and Tropical Packing Ecuador S.A. 

12Commerce has found the following companies 

to be cross-owned with Sociedad Nacional de 

Gala ́pagos C.A: Naturisa S.A., Holding Sola & Sola 

Solacciones S.A., and Empacadora Champmar S.A. 

13Commerce has found the following companies 

to be cross-owned with Devi Sea Foods Limited: 

Devi Sea Foods Inc, Devee Horizon LLP, Devee 

Power Corporation Limited, and Devee Superior 

Feeds Limited. 

14Commerce has found the following company to 

be cross-owned with Sandhya Aqua Exports Private 

Limited: Neeli Sea Foods Private Limited, Vijay 

Aqua Processors Private Limited, and Neeli Aqua 

Farms. 

15See CVD Preliminary Determinations. 

16See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) 

(Final Rule). 

17See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance). 

18This segment will be combined with the 

ACCESS Segment Specific Information (SSI) field 

which will display the month in which the notice 

of the order or suspended investigation was 

published in the Federal Register, also known as 

the anniversary month. For example, for an order 

under case number A–000–000 that was published 

in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 

segment and SSI combination will appear in 

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL-January Anniversary.’’ Note that 

there will be only one annual inquiry service list 

segment per case number, and the anniversary 

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS. 

19See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206. 

Company Subsidy rate 

(percent ad valorem) 

Ecuador 

Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila S.A11 ............................................................................................................................ 3.57 

Sociedad Nacional de Gala ́pagos C.A12 ............................................................................................................................ 4.41 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 3.78 

India 

Devi Sea Foods Limited 13 .................................................................................................................................................. 5.87 

Sandhya Aqua Exports Private Limited 14 ........................................................................................................................... 5.63 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5.77 

Vietnam 

Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Company .......................................................................................................................... 2.84 

Thong Thuan Company Limited .......................................................................................................................................... 221.82 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 2.84 

Provisional Measures—CVD 

Section 703(d) of the Act states that 

the suspension of liquidation pursuant 

to an affirmative preliminary 

determination may not remain in effect 

for more than four months. Commerce 

published the CVD Preliminary 

Determinations on April 1, 2024.15 As 

such, the four-month period beginning 

on the date of the publication of the 

CVD Preliminary Determinations ended 

on July 29, 2024. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

703(d) of the Act, we instructed CBP to 

terminate the suspension of liquidation 

and to liquidate, without regard to 

countervailing duties, unliquidated 

entries of shrimp from Ecuador, India, 

and Vietnam or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption, on or after 

July 30, 2024, the date on which the 

provisional measures expired, until and 

through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of liquidation and the 

collection of cash deposits will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final determination in the Federal 

Register. 

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry 

Service Lists 

On September 20, 2021, Commerce 

published the Final Rule in the Federal 

Register.16 On September 27, 2021, 

Commerce also published the 

Procedural Guidance in the Federal 

Register.17 The Final Rule and 

Procedural Guidance provide that 

Commerce will maintain an annual 

inquiry service list for each order or 

suspended investigation, and any 

interested party submitting a scope 

ruling application or request for 

circumvention inquiry shall serve a 

copy of the application or request on the 

persons on the annual inquiry service 

list for that order, as well as any 

companion order covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin. 

In accordance with the Procedural 

Guidance, for orders published in the 

Federal Register after November 4, 

2021, Commerce will create an annual 

inquiry service list segment in 

Commerce’s online e-filing and 

document management system, 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS), 

available at https://access.trade.gov, 

within five business days of publication 

of the notice of the order. Each annual 

inquiry service list will be saved in 

ACCESS, under each case number, and 

under a specific segment type called 

‘‘AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.’’ 18

Interested parties who wish to be 

added to the annual inquiry service list 

for an order must submit an entry of 

appearance to the annual inquiry 

service list segment for the order in 

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 

publication of the order. For ease of 

administration, Commerce requests that 

law firms with more than one attorney 

representing interested parties in an 

order designate a lead attorney to be 

included on the annual inquiry service 

list. Commerce will finalize the annual 

inquiry service list within five business 

days thereafter. As mentioned in the 

Procedural Guidance,19 the new annual 

inquiry service list will be in place until 

the following year, when the 

Opportunity Notice for the anniversary 

month of the order is published. 

Commerce may update an annual 

inquiry service list at any time as 

needed based on interested parties’ 

amendments to their entries of 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Any changes or 

announcements pertaining to these 

procedures will be posted to the 

ACCESS website at https://

access.trade.gov. 

Special Instructions for Petitioner and 

Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 


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20See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 20

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioner and the Governments of 

Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam 

should submit their initial entries of 

appearance after publication of this 

notice in order to appear in the first 

annual inquiry service lists for these 

orders. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the 

Governments of Ecuador, India, 

Indonesia, and Vietnam will not need to 

resubmit their entries of appearance 

each year to continue to be included on 

the annual inquiry service list. 

However, the petitioner and the 

Governments of Ecuador, India, 

Indonesia, and Vietnam are responsible 

for making amendments to their entries 

of appearance during the annual update 

to the annual inquiry service list in 

accordance with the procedures 

described above. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the AD order 

with respect to shrimp from Indonesia 

and the CVD orders with respect to 

shrimp from Ecuador, India, and 

Vietnam, pursuant to sections 706(a) 

and 736(a) of the Act. Interested parties 

can find a list of AD and CVD orders 

currently in effect at https://

www.trade.gov/datavisualization/ 

adcvd-proceedings. 

These orders are issued and published 

in accordance with sections 706(a) and 

736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: December 18, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Orders 

The scope of these orders includes certain 

frozen warmwater shrimp and prawns 

whether wild-caught (ocean harvested) or 

farm-raised (produced by aquaculture), headon or head-off, shell-on or peeled, tail-on or 

tail-off, deveined or not deveined, cooked or 

raw, or otherwise processed in frozen form. 

‘‘Tails’’ in this context means the tail fan, 

which includes the telson and the uropods. 

The frozen warmwater shrimp and prawn 

products included in the scope, regardless of 

definitions in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), are 

products which are processed from 

warmwater shrimp and prawns through 

freezing and which are sold in any count 

size. 

The products described above may be 

processed from any species of warmwater 

shrimp and prawns. Warmwater shrimp and 

prawns are generally classified in, but are not 

limited to, the Penaeidae family. Some 

examples of the farmed and wild-caught 

warmwater species include, but are not 

limited to, whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus 

vannemei), banana prawn (Penaeus 

merguiensis), fleshy prawn (Penaeus 

chinensis), giant river prawn 

(Macrobrachium rosenbergii), giant tiger 

prawn (Penaeus monodon), redspotted 

shrimp (Penaeus brasiliensis), southern 

brown shrimp (Penaeus subtilis), southern 

pink shrimp (Penaeus notialis), southern 

rough shrimp (Trachypenaeus curvirostris), 

southern white shrimp (Penaeus schmitti), 

blue shrimp (Penaeus stylirostris), western 

white shrimp (Penaeus occidentalis), and 

Indian white prawn (Penaeus indicus). 

Frozen shrimp and prawns that are packed 

with marinade, spices or sauce are included 

in the scope. In addition, food preparations, 

which are not ‘‘prepared meals,’’ that contain 

more than 20 percent by weight of shrimp or 

prawn are also included in the scope. 

Excluded from the scope are: (1) breaded 

shrimp and prawns (HTSUS subheading 

1605.21.1020); (2) shrimp and prawns 

generally classified in the Pandalidae family 

and commonly referred to as coldwater 

shrimp, in any state of processing; (3) fresh 

shrimp and prawns whether shell-on or 

peeled (HTSUS subheadings 0306.36.0020 

and 0306.36.0040); (4) shrimp and prawns in 

prepared meals (HTSUS subheadings 

1605.21.0500 and 1605.29.0500); (5) dried 

shrimp and prawns; (6) canned warmwater 

shrimp and prawns (HTSUS subheading 

1605.29.1040); and (7) certain battered 

shrimp. Battered shrimp is a shrimp-based 

product: (1) that is produced from fresh (or 

thawed-from-frozen) and peeled shrimp; (2) 

to which a ‘‘dusting’’ layer of rice or wheat 

flour of at least 95 percent purity has been 

applied; (3) with the entire surface of the 

shrimp flesh thoroughly and evenly coated 

with the flour; (4) with the non-shrimp 

content of the end product constituting 

between four and ten percent of the product’s 

total weight after being dusted, but prior to 

being frozen; and (5) that is subjected to 

individually quick frozen (IQF) freezing 

immediately after application of the dusting 

layer. When dusted in accordance with the 

definition of dusting above, the battered 

shrimp product is also coated with a wet 

viscous layer containing egg and/or milk, and 

par-fried. 

The products covered by the scope are 

currently classified under the following 

HTSUS subheadings: 0306.17.0004, 

0306.17.0005, 0306.17.0007, 0306.17.0008, 

0306.17.0010, 0306.17.0011, 0306.17.0013, 

0306.17.0014, 0306.17.0016, 0306.17.0017, 

0306.17.0019, 0306.17.0020, 0306.17.0022, 

0306.17.0023, 0306.17.0025, 0306.17.0026, 

0306.17.0028, 0306.17.0029, 0306.17.0041, 

0306.17.0042, 1605.21.1030, and 

1605.29.1010. These HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and for customs 

purposes only and are not dispositive, but 

rather the written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Minority Business Development 

Agency 

[Docket No. 241219–0332] 

Request for Public Comment on MBDA 

Information Clearinghouse 

AGENCY: Minority Business 

Development Agency, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Minority Business 

Development Agency (MBDA) is 

accepting written comments from the 

public regarding the MBDA Information 

Clearinghouse, through February 28, 

2025. The comments will inform MBDA 

of the types of data and other 

information sought, best practices or 

recommendations for studies, analysis 

and data about Minority Business 

Enterprises (MBEs) to be published, and 

ways to improve the user experience. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit all comments 

in response to the questions presented 

in this notice at www.regulations.gov. 

To access the docket where comments 

may be submitted, please enter 

‘‘MBDA–2024–0004’’ in the search bar. 

Written comments must be submitted 

no later than 11:59 p.m. EST, February 

28, 2025. Comments received after the 

deadline will not be considered. For 

comments to be considered, they must 

include the following identification of 

the commenter: name; title (if 

applicable); organization or business (if 

applicable); and city and state. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Efrain Gonzalez, Jr., Associate Director, 

Office of Data, Research and Evaluation, 

Minority Business Development 

Agency, at (202) 482–1079; or by email 

at egonzalez@mbda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Minority Business Development 

Act of 2021, 15 U.S.C. 9513, mandates 

MBDA to develop and implement an 

Information Clearinghouse that will 

collect and disseminate demographic, 

economic, financial, managerial, and 

technical data relating to MBEs. In 

conjunction with this Request for Public 

Comment, MBDA will launch the 

Information Clearinghouse and allow 

the public an opportunity to review, and 

comment based on the initial 

deployment. The Information 

Clearinghouse is being released as a beta 

version hosting data, research, and 

reports about MBEs, with on-going 

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